'Transformers 3' Extra Suing Paramount Pictures After Serious Injury on Set

By PopEater Staff Posted Oct 5th 2010 09:40PM

'Transformers 3' extra Gabriella Cedillo was seriously injured during filming last month after a stunt went horribly wrong. And on Tuesday, her brother, Adolfo Romo, filed a lawsuit on her behalf against Paramount Pictures alleging negligence, RadarOnline.com reports.

"We filed a case this morning in Chicago and made a request for a jury trial," Cedillo's attorney Todd A. Smith told RadarOnline.com.

Her lawyer also said Cedillo, 24, is unable to speak and is paralyzed on her left side. "It looks like she has vision loss in the left eye, which is sewn shut because there's a paralysis associated with that and they don't want her eye to dry out." One day after the accident in September, Cedillo underwent brain surgery.

The suit refers to the victim as "a disabled person" and says that she "assumed no risk of injury in performing her duties as an extra on the Transformers 3 movie set."

Several different mechanical and procedural malfunctions are listed in the suit including: "Failed to properly weld the metal bracket to the stunt car... Failed to provide adequate safety precautions... Allowed untrained extras to drive their own vehicles within close proximity to a violent stunt."

It's been reported that Cedillo was driving her own car while a stunt vehicle drove in the opposite direction. A cable towing one of the stunt cars came loose and sliced through Cedillo's car window, striking her in the head.

The suit is seeking in more than $50,000 on counts of negligence against seven different companies and individuals involved. "All of these entities played a role in some respect as to what happened," Smith said. "In Illinois you're not allowed to ask for a specific sum so ultimately the amount of money in this case will be determined by a jury.

Cedilli is making small improvements, Smith said. "Gabriela is somewhat responsive and the family is hopeful that she will continue to take these small strides."

Tags: Gabriella Cedillo, Transformers 3

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Wednesday 06 October

By tom chi

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Fortunately emergency medicine can do miracles and it appears she has been well cared for. Now that the initial healing has been done acupuncture can most often tell the brain to resume its proper functioning.

This is the same recovery we see for post-stroke injuries and it is an often amazing and quick result.

Actor Mark Ruffalo was cured of a post-surgical disaffective type disorder and resultant Bells Palsy that had been afflicting him for six months and it only took two sessions of acupuncture in our office though any master-level acupuncturist gets these results too.

Dr. Tom Chi

By Nico Toscani

STFU you quack. This girl had a traumatic brain injury and will never be the same again.

By wabbit

I hate this happened. It may be the fact that this girl was young and inexperienced as a stunt double that she did not check out her rig herself. As a stunt person you make sure the stunt equipment you are using is safe and together properly because you can't trust other people to do it for you. It's not their butt. They use stunt doubles for a reason... so the star don't get hurt in case there is a problem. It is a dangerous job.

By Jeremy

I think this movie is cursed. After how terrible 2 was I'm not surprised.

By tb

Hundreds of millions of dollars will go into making this film. You mean to tell me they couldn't take a few thousand of that to hire properly trained people to insure people don't get seriously hurt or die?

Sure accidents happen, but extras aren't stunt doubles. They don't sign up for danger unless they're qualified. This was preventable. If she doesn't win this lawsuit, it'll be a shame.

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